Rumor or not it would be a great idea. KTM and Red Bull have deep pockets and quite frankly if you want to win the best rider will help your odds. How much money does a guy need to collect before he-she is willing to give up a huge bragging right. I believe every rider in the paddock would want to clean up on an unproven machine for the egomaniacal pleasure alone. PS Philip Island was a cracking race, the best I can remember.KTM has said they will not replace there riders, they believe they have the right stuff. If Marc wanted to ride for them I bet they would find a bike available.

KTM riders are only contracted to the end of next season. As is Marquez I believe. A lot will depend on how the KTM is looking next year. Redbull can easily afford to bring Marquez on board. It will come down to whether he wants that challenge yet.

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Scotty wrote:MM93 is a Honda boy, but a heap of Red Bull €€€ might tempt him to do a Valentino and move from something he can win on for fun and try a bike that's as yet not topped the podium...

He`s already a Red Bull boy and going by KTM`s results in the last few GP`s they are defiantly going in the right direction, I don't think the move would be as disastrous as the Val / Ducati move.

I was thinking more along the lines of VR46’s move from the all-conquering RC211V to the comparatively hopeless M1 at the end of 2003, a slightly more successful swap than the Ducati fiasco...

At the time the M1 was the only other bike other than the Honda with motoGP wins, and it's plight in the previous season was mainly down to Yamaha signing Barros as a lead rider and then having him injured for a long time.

Yamaha massively increased the MotoGP budget and tested like crazy, they used 4 different engine configurations in the early off season. The bike Rossi raced at Welkom was vastly different to the one that finished the previous season.

It's a big achievement but IMO no greater than Biaggi having a massive falling out with Aprillia after 3 championship seasons and then jumping on a Honda and winning the title.